A study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics said this week that Britain may be "over-investing" in higher education, Money might be better spent on reducing the...
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SOUTHAMPTON Institute bosses have hired an ex-police chief to uncover the publishers of a "scurrilous" internal spoof newsletter. Ray Piper, a former detective superintendent with the Hampshire...
THE "Corporate University" poses an "outside threat" to higher education and brings "attendant risks and large unknowns", warns the Association of Business Schools. In its oral evidence to Sir Ron...
AT LEAST 75 final year student teachers are challenging Anglia Polytechnic University over its decision to deflate their final teaching practice grades. The students, who lodged academic appeals this...
Proposals to change teacher training entry requirements would be an "absolute disaster" for university education departments, a lecturers union has warned. Nigel Gates, chairman of the Association of...
(Photograph) - Robotic welcome: George Kynoch, Scottish Office minister for industry (left), has a close encounter with interactive sculpture Lautriv Chromagnon Medusa alongside its creator, Franz...
In its report The Cloning of Animals From Adult Cells expected this week, the House of Commons science and technology committee will call for changes in the law on human cloning, following the...
THE Association of University Teachers Scotland has called on higher education institutions to stick to a policy of no compulsory redundancies in the wake of the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
Academics at the Institute of Education have developed a new model for assessing A level performance which shows that girls who did well at GCSE went on to gain up to around two A-level points fewer...
GOVERNMENT officials are conducting an inquiry to find the true level of student grant fraud amidst reports putting false claims at more than Pounds 34 million over the last four years. The DFEE...
A TOTAL of 269 out of 185,000 British biomedical papers published between 1988 and 1994 acknowledged support from the tobacco industry for tobacco-related research, according to Grant Lewison of the...
TOUGH new entry standards for engineering degree courses could halve the number of engineering graduates, vice chancellors have warned. The revisions to the programme "Standards and Routes to...
Glasgow University and Glasgow Development Agency have unveiled a prototype hotline to industry this week. Companies will be able to identify, either from disk or the Internet, academic research and...
All industrial action has ended in Scotland's colleges and new universities following staff acceptance of a 2.5 per cent pay award, with the prospect of another 0.4 per cent pending the outcome of...